EN 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Visual Poetry, Barrie Phillip Nichol, Michel Foucault
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Everything else in the course = not as interesting. Affective relationship with its reader, rather than a logical response. Probably thought coming into the course that we would talk about emotional texts; Tried my best to disillusion you of that notion . The image is an integral aspect of the poetry and cannot be separated from it. Strong philosophical background to the material today. Oppositional stance against foundational stance of reading and writing. The challenge is the point; thinking where those difference lay. In addition to those other aspects of poetry, it would be hard to read it traditionally. A dissatisfaction with the rules of normative discourse; Often we pay no attention to the structures of how we speak. To play around with the medium of writing and the rules of poetry. There are rules that we normalized to the point where we don"t think about it anymore. Emphasizes its own artificiality: its constructed nature.
